Described as the most oppressed Muslim woman in the world, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist and MIT graduate, has been in United States custody for over 18 years and is serving an 86-year sentence that has been widely contested as unjust and built on non-existent evidence. There are widespread and credible allegations that she was subject to illegal torture at secret US detention facilities, a kidnapping that resulted in the killing of her infant son, and that she now faces abuse at her current detention facility.
With Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif attending the UN General Assembly in New York, there is an opportunity to raise her case through diplomatic channels. Her lawyers say significant new evidence deserves serious judicial review. Join the campaign to call on Pakistan to pursue every lawful legal and diplomatic avenue for justice, compassion, her release, and reunification with her family. And demand that journalists investigate her case and raise serious questions with US and Pakistani authorities over the injustices committed against Dr. Siddiqui for over 23 years.